> Still I think MacOS on x86 could have been a contender against Windows 3.1.
"MacOS" is slightly ambiguous because of the nomenclature changes, though Star Trek was System 7. The nomenclature (ignoring iDevice os names) evolves from System 1-7, Mac OS 7.6 - 9.2 (aka "Classic"), Mac OS X, OS X, and finally macOS, but all these names really only represents two distinct operating systems across 4 distinct hardware platforms.
The Star Trek project also initiated in 1992, after the PowerPC AIM alliance was formed. PowerPC was promising and apparently pretty exciting, with RISC able to do more with less processor cycles than x86 CISC. But by the late 1990's and early 2000's, Motorola had sold its PPC division to Freescale, and IBM had sold off its embedded chip applications and spread out into game console processors. Apple (Jobs) wasn't happy with IBM's delays in advancement or the roadmap, and by 2005 Apple announced the platform switch to x86.
"MacOS" is slightly ambiguous because of the nomenclature changes, though Star Trek was System 7. The nomenclature (ignoring iDevice os names) evolves from System 1-7, Mac OS 7.6 - 9.2 (aka "Classic"), Mac OS X, OS X, and finally macOS, but all these names really only represents two distinct operating systems across 4 distinct hardware platforms.
The Star Trek project also initiated in 1992, after the PowerPC AIM alliance was formed. PowerPC was promising and apparently pretty exciting, with RISC able to do more with less processor cycles than x86 CISC. But by the late 1990's and early 2000's, Motorola had sold its PPC division to Freescale, and IBM had sold off its embedded chip applications and spread out into game console processors. Apple (Jobs) wasn't happy with IBM's delays in advancement or the roadmap, and by 2005 Apple announced the platform switch to x86.